This 2001/2002 ECO annual report was submitted to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on Sept 26, 2002. You can download the full report (including articles not yet available here) and see all related communications materials here. Click here to read other ECO Reports to the Legislature.

Contents 1 Developing Sustainability 1.1 Part 1: Environmental Bill of Rights 1.2 Part 2: The Environmental Registry 1.3 Part 3: Significant Issues 1.4 Part 4: Ministry Environmental Decisions 1.5 Part 5: Reviews and Investigations 1.6 Part 8: Developing Issues 1.7 Recommendations

Developing Sustainability

• Message from the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario

Part 1: Environmental Bill of Rights

• Introduction to 2001/02 Annual Report

Part 2: The Environmental Registry

• Instrument: Permit to Take Water for Bottling
• Field Audit: Access to Information
• Accountability and Transparency: Gaps in the System?

Part 3: Significant Issues

• Monitoring of Trends in Rural Water Quality in Southern Ontario
• Developing Sustainability: Evaluating MTO’s Commitment to Reducing Road Salt Releases
• Permit to Take Water for Bottling
• Developing Sustainability: Will the Nutrient Management Act Protect Rural Water Quality?
• MNR’s New Guide for Forest Harvesting
• Developing Sustainability: Can Forestry and Woodland Caribou Coexist?
• Fisheries Act Enforcement in Ontario
• Update: Air Issues
• Developing Sustainability: Will COA Help to Restore the Great Lakes?
• Land Use Planning, Smart Growth, and Ontario’s Natural Heritage

Part 4: Ministry Environmental Decisions

• Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act
• Municipal Act, 2001
• Developing Sustainability: Reusing Brownfields/Saving Greenfields
• Emissions Reduction Trading and NOx and SO2 Emission Limits for the Electricity Sector: O. Reg. 397/01
• Emission Limits: The Lakeview Thermal Generating Station
• Environmental Assessment Requirements for Electricity Sector Projects: O.Reg. 116/01
• Monitoring and Reporting of Emissions of Airborne Contaminants: O.Reg. 127/01
• Hazardous Waste Update: New Fees and Improvements in Information
• Changes in the Drive Clean Program
• Additions to Ontario’s Regulated Endangered Species
• The Wolves of Algonquin Provincial Park
• Drinking Water Protection for Schools, Day Nurseries and Social and Health Care Facilities on *Smaller Water Systems
• Control Orders for Sudbury Smelters
• Developing Sustainability: Central Ontario Forests – Under Stress from Acid Precipitation

Part 5: Reviews and Investigations

• Provincial Parks Act
• Ontario's Half-Parks? Conservation Reserves and Mining
• Toronto’s Waste Disposal Plan: Making Sure It’s Environmentally Sound
• Review of the SWARU Incinerator
• Air Emissions and Odours from Cabinet Manufacturing
• Sound-Sorb
• Rural Developments and Communal Servicing Policies

Part 8: Developing Issues

• Conserving Biodiversity in Ontario - 2002
• Ontario’s Lake Trout – In Peril?
• Managing Ozone-Depleting Substances: Changes Made, Improvements Needed

Recommendations

• 2001/02 Recommendations